eSight managing NEs from a VPN network

Publication Date: 2015-01-13Views: 394Downloads: 0

Issue Description

The customer had a topology consisting on ~200 x S5700 switches and eSight and due to
this large environment he wanted to make his job easier by managing different processes
on the switches through eSight. One of the
handy features used by the customer on eSight is Backup&Restore which can
save and restore the configuration of your device independent by your manual intervention
on a server.

The problem appears when the customer would have the
management addresses into a separate VPN
instance, situation that make the feature not working.

Handling Process

If the NMS
manages devices on the VPN network, you need to send the device information to the
NMS using the VPN instance.

You can run the set net-manager vpn-instance command to configure the default VPN
instance for the NMS to manage the device so that the device can use this VPN
instance to communicate with the NMS. Having the VPN instance specified the
feature can work and skip allthe
administrator’s job to manually backup configurations on a Server.

Root Cause

By default, if the VPN instance is not specified for NMS-NE communication
the data will not be sent to the NMS using the instance.